Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged 37-year-old Earl Maxwell in connection to the murder of his ex-girlfriend, 42-year-old Latrese Dorsey.
Dorsey was shot and killed in front of her four-year-old daughter Jada on Father's Day, June 18. She was shot multiple times in her home on the 20060 block of Avon in Detroit. Maxwell turned himself into police on June 20. He is expected to be arraigned on Thursday, June 22 at 2:30 p.m.
According to reports, Maxwell had previously stated that if he didn't get in touch with his ex-girlfriend, Latrese Dorsey, he was going to shoot her in the head.
Dorsey leaves behind three children and three stepchildren. Her 14-year-old son, Justin, was home at the time, but relatives say he didn't know the sounds he heard were gunshots until Jada ran to tell him that their mommy had been shot.
Justin had been wearing headphones to play his X Box, but as soon as his little sister told him what happened, he rushed to try to resuscitate his mother and yell for help.
"He was mad that she left him. He couldn't get over that she wanted to move on," said Paul Dorsey, Latrese's former husband.
Prosecutor Worthy stated: "What makes these allegations especially disturbing is that the crime was committed in the presence of one of the deceased's children and within earshot of another. They will have to live with these images for the rest of their lives.”
